The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall Against Kidnapping, Before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855 |
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... bill and were discharged , I took public notice of the conduct of Judge Curtis , in a Sermon for the Fourth of July . But I knew the friends of the fugitive slave bill at Boston and Washington too well to think they would let the matter ...
... bill and were discharged , I took public notice of the conduct of Judge Curtis , in a Sermon for the Fourth of July . But I knew the friends of the fugitive slave bill at Boston and Washington too well to think they would let the matter ...
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... fugitive slave bill — Act of Septem- ber 18th , 1850 - praying for the seizure and enslavement of Anthony Burns . - The next day , Wednesday , May 24th , Commissioner Loring issued the warrant : Mr. Burns was seized in the course of the ...
... fugitive slave bill — Act of Septem- ber 18th , 1850 - praying for the seizure and enslavement of Anthony Burns . - The next day , Wednesday , May 24th , Commissioner Loring issued the warrant : Mr. Burns was seized in the course of the ...
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... fugitive slave bill ; and he charged the Jury especially and minutely upon the Statute of the United States of 1790 , in relation to resisting officers in service of process as follows , That not only those who are present and actually ...
... fugitive slave bill ; and he charged the Jury especially and minutely upon the Statute of the United States of 1790 , in relation to resisting officers in service of process as follows , That not only those who are present and actually ...
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... Law of God above the fugitive slave bill ! Such are the acts charged . Gentlemen of the Jury , you are sum- moned here to declare them a Crime , and then to punish me for this " offence ! " You are the Axe which the Government grasps ...
... Law of God above the fugitive slave bill ! Such are the acts charged . Gentlemen of the Jury , you are sum- moned here to declare them a Crime , and then to punish me for this " offence ! " You are the Axe which the Government grasps ...
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... fugitive slave bill ; and when the law of Massachusetts is read , the chain is also upon the neck of that court ! Within the court house was full of armed men . I found Mr. Sims in a private room , illegally , in defiance of Massachusetts ...
... fugitive slave bill ; and when the law of Massachusetts is read , the chain is also upon the neck of that court ! Within the court house was full of armed men . I found Mr. Sims in a private room , illegally , in defiance of Massachusetts ...
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Page 153 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 189 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Page 191 - Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
Page 119 - I discharged every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity, as absolute and as palpable as if Congress had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image...
Page 31 - Pollexfen gently reminded the court that his late majesty had thought Baxter deserving of a bishopric. " And what ailed the old blockhead then," cried Jeffreys, " that he did not take it ?" His fury now rose almost to madness. He called Baxter a dog, and swore that it would be no more than justice to whip such a villain through the whole city. ' Wallop interposed, but fared no better than his leader. " You are in all these dirty causes, Mr. Wallop,
Page 31 - Richard, Richard, dost thou think we'll hear thee poison the court? Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave; thou hast written books enough to load a cart, every one as full of sedition, I might say treason, as an egg is full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of thy writing trade forty years ago, it had been happy.
Page 161 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Page 132 - Fallen cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering; but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
Page 31 - He would have nothing but longwinded cant without book ;' and then his lordship turned up his eyes, clasped his hands, and began to sing through his nose in imitation of what he supposed to be Baxter's style of praying, ' Lord, we are thy people, thy peculiar people, thy dear people.
Page 96 - Gentlemen, you shall not be dismissed till we have a verdict that the court will accept, and you shall be locked up without meat, drink, fire, and tobacco. You shall not think thus to abuse the court. We will have a verdict, by the help of God, or you shall starve for it.